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was also connected to the work, revising the sections dealing with the clergy. Lassen criticized
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the project since its beginning 11 years earlier. Lassen's revisions to the draft are mostly corrections of misunderstandings, with very few highly negative comments. Thus, Vinding and
Griffenfeld (previously Schumacher) had won the battle over the layout of the text.
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